For parents like Lori Kidd, registering her eight-month-old son Oliver in swimming lessons means being the first to click when it comes to registration.

“I was nervous because everybody says it books up so quickly,” Kidd said. “For us, we’re really lucky we’re off work right now so it didn’t matter what day. We didn’t have to co-ordinate with another child [or] another swim program.”

But as the saying goes, the early bird doesn’t always get the worm.

“We do know [my child’s] cousin got put on a wait list for the class that they wanted to go in but so far we’ve lucked out, and it’s been good,” said another parent, Amanda Hungle.